Every modelling agency must provide proof of a financial guarantee ensuring, in the event of default on its part, the payment of salaries, their accessories and supplements, compulsory social security contributions and the payment of sums due to the model on the date on which this guarantee is called upon, in respect of the remuneration defined in article L. 7123-6.
The financial guarantee may only result from a guarantee undertaking given by a mutual guarantee company, a collective guarantee organisation, an insurance company, a bank or a financial institution authorised to give guarantees.
If the financial guarantee is insufficient, the user is substituted for the modelling agency for the payment of sums still owed to the employees and to the social security bodies to which these employees belong, for the duration of the service performed on behalf of the user.
The modelling agency shall provide users, at their request, with a certificate from the social security bodies specifying their situation with regard to the collection of contributions due to these bodies.
A decree of the Conseil d’Etat shall determine the conditions of application of this chapter.
Any person operating a modelling agency who fails to conclude a written employment contract with each model they employ, in breach of the provisions of article L. 7123-5, is punishable by six months’ imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros.
Any person operating a modelling agency who has drawn up an employment contract that does not include a precise definition of its purpose, in breach of the provisions of article L. 7123-5, is liable to six months’ imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros.
Operating a modelling agency without holding a modelling agency licence or without first declaring the activity, in breach of the provisions of article L. 7123-11, is punishable by six months’ imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros.
Failure by any person operating a modelling agency or engaging the services of a model for remuneration to comply with the obligation set out in article L. 7123-2-1 is punishable by six months’ imprisonment and a fine of €75,000.
Any person operating a modelling agency who makes a model available to a user without concluding a written availability contract or one that does not specify the characteristics of the service required of the model, in breach of the provisions of the first and second paragraphs of article L. 7123-17, is punishable by six months’ imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros. Failure to provide the model with a copy…
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